Category: Renovation
These posts are about or include references to my renovation projects
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Cooling
So I now have one day less than a month to get the heat pump installed, the hot water and buffer tanks set up and at least one of the fan coil heaters working so the new heating system can be commissioned before November 17th, which is when the BUS certificate expires and I’ll become…
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Helping
I’m not quite sure how I feel about today. On the one hand, it started out really well. I got up nice and early, studied for an hour and did some handwriting practise and then had a class with LQ from 7:00 to 8:00am. We studied the first half of an idiom which is about…
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Advisors
On the one hand I am reasonably competent. I am taking on a series of jobs and activities around the house and garden which are both novel to me and reasonably challenging and require some tools and effort and thinking. On the other, I don’t feel very organised at all. When my friend D visits,…
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Bobiverse
I have been reading, for a couple of years now, a series of books called the Bobiverse. It is a science fiction series which follows a project manager and software developer called Bob who dies and is then resurrected around 100 years later as a von Neumann probe. Von Neumann is a self replicating machine,…
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Dust
A thing which never ceases to amaze is how easy it is to miss a day’s writing. It’s now 7:15am on Saturday morning and I’m getting ready to work on the house. I’ve got to pack up some of the things that I unpacked and put into the kitchen because I’ve realised the amount of…
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Farmer on the ground
One thought recently is about the size or scale at which I’m operating. I wouldn’t say it’s full blown regret it’s more of an acknowledgement this is a big project to take on. I have a four bedroom house, a double garage, a front and a back garden. The amount of time this amount of…